I am reading Martin Luther King Jr.’s book. Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? (King Legacy).

While there must be a continued emphasis on the need for blacks to pool their economic resources and withdraw consumer support from discriminating firms, we must not be oblivious to the fact that the larger economic problems confronting the Negro community will only be solved by federal programs involving billions of dollars. One unfortunate thing about Black Power is that it gives priority to race precisely at a time when the impact of automation and other forces have made the economic question fundamental for blacks and whites alike. In this context a slogan “Power for Poor People” would be much more appropriate than the slogan “Black Power.”

I think that what MLK Jr. is  saying here is that Bernie Sanders’ emphasis on class warfare and income inequality deserves the emphasis Sanders’ give it.  This in no way diminishes the need to fight racial injustice.  In fact, it is one, and I emphasize “one”, way to fight racial injustice.

In reading this section of the book, there was a powerful description of the psychological warfare prescription for slave owners to use to subjugate their slaves. While it was startling how someone could actually write this in a book for slave owners, and startling to read just what was perpetrated against the slaves, it is also startling to realize that these very techniques are now being deployed in class warfare being waged against non-wealthy people of all colors.

Tech Crunch has the article Enjoy a video of Boston Dynamics’ new robot doing chores and slipping on banana peels.

Boston Dynamics, the company behind some of the most impressively terrifying and terrifyingly impressive robots of the past decade, is demonstrating its softer side with a video showcasing the Alphabet-owned [Google – ed.] firm’s latest creation.

How is this political, you ask? Glad you did.

Do you think traditional economic policy will be able to keep us all employed and earning enough to live on? If you pick a Presidential candidate who only thinks of the practical and today’s possible, then we are sunk.

How about listening to Bernie Sanders who asks us all to think big? Certainly the people designing these robots are not stuck thinking “inside the box”.

When “leaders” want to take us to war and cannot even think of the consequences that will turn around and bite us 6 months from now, how good do you think they are at looking into our future with robots?

Will the voters be any better at looking down the road and seeing the consequences of our decisions made today? How smart are the super-delegates? Can they see past their noses, or their outstretched, bribery seeking hands?